Energy Systems Innovation Center

Happy Holidays from the Energy Systems Innovation Center! Wishing you a season filled with warmth, joy, and renewed energy. Thank you for your collaboration and support throughout the year—we look forward to continuing our work together in the new year.

ESIC is grateful to our incredible PEP and REP members for powering innovation and advancing the future of energy systems! ⚡💡 Together, we’re driving sustainability and empowering the next generation of power engineers. 🌍

Dr. Anjan Bose of the Energy Systems Innovation Center recently was interviewed on NPR by the Short Wave podcast. Bose, Anjan discusses the evolving power grid through US history and how continued development is of the utmost importance.

To listen to the podcast, please follow this link:
https://lnkd.in/g6pq3m8a

Regents Professor and ESIC researcher Dr. Anjan Bose has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Engineering Society (IEEE-PES) for sustained pioneering contributions to automation and control of power grid operations, training, and education. For the full story, click HERE

Our very own ESIC Director, Mani Venkatasubramanian has been selected for a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy. Mani and the WSU team received $2.4M from the Department of Energy for their project, “Topic Area 1: Planning tools for managing uncertainties in future power grids.”

A paper co-authored by our students Deepak Joshi and KC Menuka and Director Mani Venkatasubramanian, with our colleagues at Texas A&M University, Arizona State University, and RTE France won the best paper award at the International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA) conference held in Washington DC

Research to be led by Anamika Dubey.

We invite you to become a member of our ESIC community!

With deep sadness, we want to share that Professor Glen Hower, former ECE Department Chair, EECS Associate
Director, and a much-loved member of our faculty and WSU family, has recently passed away. Glen was instrumental in founding the WSU Power Professorship program in 1973, which continues to support undergraduate power engineering education at WSU. Glen was 90 years old. Our prayers are with his family.

ESIC is now accepting applications for the 2026 Spring Break Practicum (March 16th-20th). This is a week long hands-on experience for students to learn from power industry professionals in the field. ESIC partners with power companies across the PNW who take in students for the weeklong practicum and teaches them how to apply their education beyond their graduation. To apply, please click here.